 Fuel reduction efforts are ongoing in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion. Within an adaptive management framework KBO is implementing monitoring efforts to evaluate the ecological effects of fuel reduction projects.
In many parts of the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion cool burning fires were frequent and did not consume entire forest canopies. After 100 years of fire suppression, wildfires that now burn in these areas are often more severe than they were historically. As a result, land managers are implanting fuel reduction projects that are intended to reduce the threat of a wildfire burning an uncharacteristically high severity; and restore fire-adapted ecological conditions and associated historic fire regemes.
KBO’s ongoing research efforts include several studies that started three to five years ago in the Klamath Basin, the Rogue River, and the Ashland Watershed. Additionally, we recently completed a sort-term project studying the effects of fuel reduction treatments in intermittent and perennial stream riparian areas of the Applegate Valley.
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